BBC's 'Uncle Dick': Derek McCulloch 'accused over sex abuse' | Political Scrapbook They all know about abuse,they are all members of a secret society thats why no one gets to know about any of it. christine redmond October 17, 2012 at 12:28 pm they all knew about jimmys the peadophile, all them at the top covered up for him, its them at the top we need to get now, they have been getting away with it for years , esther rantzon should be removed imediatly from working with children, she has been contacted by email,letters all which she has never even replied, WHY ! BECAUSE ABUSERS WERE FORM THE HIGHER RANKS OF SOCEITY….JOE BLOGGS OFF THE STREET WOULD OF BEEN HANDCUFFED ASAP. THESE HIGHER RANKS OF SOCEITY WILL BE PANICING NOW, THE PUBLIC ARE NOT LETTING THIS GO, ANOTHER HILLSBOROUGH ! WE WILL GET YOU ALL INTHE END. JUSTICE FOR HOLLIE GREIG.

Truth-seeker October 17, 2012 at 12:52 pm There may be lots of predators out there in the world who have been exposed recently in the media. But there are also people who will quite happily spread lies and jump on the proverbial bandwagon in a bid to seek ‘fame, fortune and glory’. I recently went to the David Icke site to check out his latest scandal and came across the Hollie Greig story. And was totally convinced it’s a hoax by the testimony of these women on youtube, who were allegedly complicit in this . If things often sound too fantastically crazy to be true, they often are. And I think you’ll find in this instance that the allegations made were false and the work of some truly evil individuals who seek power and influence by massively defaming innocent people. When reading news and hearing gossip and rumour, it’s crucial for the sake of justice and fairness that allegations are based on fact and truth. In this instance, I think there has been a most evil conspiracy. And that needs to pointed out and underlined very clearly. Check this video out: Dunlop Spotty the dog was a bit of a dirty canine as well!

And as for Muffin the Mule! JB October 17, 2012 at 2:36 pm My friend told me about Jimmy Saville over 30 years ago. Her father had unfortunately had a road traffic accident and had broken his neck, he was taken to Stoke Mandeville Hospital. On several occasions whilst visiting her father there was word that Jimmy Saville was going to visit. All of a sudden all the nurses disappeared, apparently they were hiding. When she asked why she was told he was a vile, dirty old man who had wandering hands and they were all disgusted by him. They had complained but were told he made a lot of money for the hospital so it was all kept quiet, but at what real cost? Truth Seeker – you have no idea what you are talking about. October 18, 2012 at 7:44 am Savile was a creep , bizarre dress sense , went around in a van and was looked filthy. In the 70s and 80s many people thought he was a weirdo and had no talent at all. So as the saying goes if it quacks like a duck then it’s a duck.

So lets look t the rest of the media weirdos – John mcerick please take note. terminator October 18, 2012 at 8:41 am Desperately disappointed to find the identity of the person alluded to by John Simpson, is non other than the guy, so many of us older ones, as kids, looked forward to listening to on Saturday morning’s Childrens Favourites. Finding childhood memories to now be based on an illusion, is like having them abused and violated, themselves. Find myself agreeing with ‘The end’ with regards to other people of eccentric lifestyle. for closer examination. Not even discounting the forever youthful Peter Pan of Pop. The truth seeker October 18, 2012 at 7:46 pm In the case of Savile there’s a mass of corroborating evidence, and although there may be some people making up stories to get in on the act, there are so many consistent accusations that there can’t be any doubt that most of them are true. In the case of McCulloch, we don’t have corroborating evidence yet afaik.

We need to know whether McCulloch and Garsgadden are the people being referred to, whether Simpson is a reliable witness and if he is, whether Garrsgadden is a reliable witness, and if she is, whether Simpson correctly understood who it was she was talking about. So there’s a huge question-mark over McCulloch now but we don’t actually know yet that he was a villain, only that he might have been. Simon @ Simon only if you sell it to Gary glitter.. or the old curly haired Newcastle player and England manager…. ;-p so I hear. Tom October 19, 2012 at 9:02 am I think it is utterly immoral and disgusting for any person or publication to name someone of such a serious crime when there is not once single piece of evidence to say it has ever been committed. A comment made by one single embittered person almost 50 years ago does not make the alleged guilty of any crime until proven otherwise. Unlike the case of Savile and others, not one alleged victim has come forward to make any such claim, yet people immediately jump onto this witch hunt so easily swayed by sensationalised and fabricated accusations.

I pity anyone with such ignorant narrow mindedness to believe such claims published in The Sun and Mail. These papers are renowned for scourging through bins and gutters in any desperate attempt to frame innocent people and destroying lives along the way without any truth or facts to back it up. John Thompson October 22, 2012 at 5:57 am Whilst the evidence is building against Jimmy Saville he won’t have acted in isolation. In fact with his “status” at the time he would have attracted fellow abusers. Jonathan King and Gary Glitter have already been caught and punished, but there will be other well known faces, still alive and active, who should be investigated, tried and convicted. If a child is abused by someone held in high regard by adults its understandable why they keep quiet at the time, they think no one will believe them. But for those in authority, whether at the BBC or any hospital Saville was involved with, to keep their suspicions to themselves is tantamount to pimping. They knowingly let their staff, patients and children be put in danger for the sake of ratings or cash. Unforgivable.

spookey you never no what goes on behind closed doors Face the truth October 24, 2012 at 11:07 am I was told a few years ago by someone who proclaimed to have been used in the 50’s and 60’s as a sex toy by the higher echelons of society, including royalty, politicians and celebrities.. some of whose names have since come to light. At the time I branded said person a “nutter” and suggested that he had an incredibly fertile imagination. There is/was a secret cabal who used children for ritualised rape, buggery and even murder… this included babies, orphaned children and the like. In recent years as more and more comes to light, the more I realise that this person was telling the truth. Just because something sounds ludicrous initially, to this one sceptic, doesn’t mean its not true.. in fact it could be the opposite.. More investigation of claims is needed and corroboration of evidence..

No one should be allowed to get away with this blatant and disgusting crime… YOU DUMB PLEBS October 26, 2012 at 7:33 am All of you remind me of the the low IQ council estate vigilante neanderthals who throw things at police vans outside court and then get arrested yourselves for something worse a few years later. What a nasty mediaeval country this nation is currently showing itself to be. If you look at the UK from outside it looks truly deranged and on the brink of total cultural and moral collapse. Go ahead and hang Saville’s dead corpse. You’ll still be in debt up to your eyeballs moving closer and closer to taking over from China as the World’s no. 1 source of educationally non-functional coolie labour. Tom Some of the comments would have improved if the authors have read this: Here’s a little excerpt… ” Though (Lionel) Gamlin’s activities were under wraps until now, there have long been rumours about McCulloch. He was given the OBE in 1964 and died in 1967, the same year as Gamlin.

Of the three men named to me as I talked to people about the BBC in those days, Uncle Mac is the one who stirs the strongest emotions. In his book Strange Places, Questionable People, published in 1998, John Simpson, the BBC’s world affairs editor, writes about his early days there. In 1967, he was given the task of preparing the obituary of a famous children’s presenter. He calls him ‘Uncle Dick’. In 1998, and still today, Simpson felt he shouldn’t name McCulloch directly: but it is now clear that Uncle Dick is Uncle Mac. In preparing the obituary, Simpson rang ‘Auntie Gladys’, who had worked with him, to get a few quotes. ‘Week after week,’ Auntie Gladys told him, ‘children from all over the country would win competitions to visit the BBC and meet Uncle Dick. He would welcome them, show them round, give them lunch, then take them to the gents and interfere with them.

If their parents complained, she said, the director-general’s office would write and say the nation wouldn’t understand such an accusation against a much loved figure.’ Auntie Gladys was Kathleen Garscadden, who worked for Children’s Hour for a number of years and died in 1991. Again, many of the people who worked for her, the actors and singers, are not alive, but some were available to be spoken to. Protégés of hers such as Stanley Baxter never heard her accuse McCulloch. One of her ‘young artists’ said: ‘She would have been at pains to shelter us from any hint of such a thing.’ When Simpson reported her remarks to his boss, the man rounded on him and told him he was an ‘ignorant, destructive young idiot’. The boss then rewrote Simpson’s copy; McCulloch, the obituary now said, ‘had a wonderful way with children’. The Corporation turned a blind eye to what was being said about McCulloch just as it later would with Savile and some of the others. Yet people knew. The Times obituary of McCulloch was written by the poet Geoffrey Dearmer.

‘Children of all ages were always comfortable in his unseen company,’ Dearmer wrote. ‘There was something of Larry the Lamb in him, and Larry could get away with murder.’ “ Wiki: Children's Hour - upcScavenger upcScavenger for the Australian radio program, see Argonauts Club Children's Hour—at first: " The Children's Hour", from a verse by Longfellow Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations That is known as the Children's Hour. —was the name of the BBC 's principal recreational service for children (as distinct from "Broadcasts to Schools") which began during the period when radio was the only medium of broadcasting. Children's Hour was broadcast from 1922 to 1964, originally from the BBC's Birmingham station 5IT, Andrew Crisell (2017). 9780415247924, Routledge.

ISBN 9780415247924 soon joined by other regional stations, then in the BBC Regional Programme, before transferring to its final home, the new BBC Home Service, at the outbreak of the second World War. Parts of the programme were also rebroadcast by the BBC World Service. For the last three years of its life (from 17 April 1961 until 27 March 1964), the title Children's Hour was no longer used, the programmes in its "time-slot" going out under the umbrella heading of For the Young. Broadcast history In the United Kingdom, Children's Hour was broadcast from 5 pm to 6 pm every day of the week, with the biggest listening figures being at weekends when parents joined in too. It was the time of day during the week when children could be expected to be home from school, and was aimed at an audience aged about 5 to 15 years. Programming was imbued with Reithian virtues, and Children's Hour was often criticised, like "Auntie" BBC itself, for paternalism and middle-class values. It was nonetheless hugely popular, and its presenters were national figures, their voices instantly recognisable.

Derek McCulloch was closely involved with the programme from 1926, and ran the department from 1933 until 1950, when he had to resign for health reasons. From 1928 to 1960, Children's Hour in Scotland was organised and presented by Kathleen Garsgadden, known as Auntie Kathleen, and whose popularity brought crowds to the radio station in Glasgow. W. H. McDowell, ‘Garscadden, Kathleen Mary Evelyn (1897–1991)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2009 [1] Popular nature study programmes on the Scottish Children's Hour were presented by Tom Gillespie (the 'Zoo Man'), James Douglas-Home (the 'Bird Man'), and Gilbert Fisher (the 'Hut Man') during the 1940s and '50s. The definitive history of the programme can be found in the book BBC Children's Hour by Wallace Grevatt, edited by Trevor Hill and published by The Book Guild in 1988.

With a foreword by David Davis, who became synonymous with the programme, its 21 chapters trace the chronological history and also deal with the BBC's six regions: Midland, Northern, West of England, Welsh, Scottish, and Northern Ireland. Trevor Hill was one of the key producers on Children's Hour and was based in Manchester but later moved across to BBC Television where he introduced Children's Television Club, the original Northern-based presenters being Geoffrey Wheeler and Judith Chalmers , before it moved to London. A full account of Hill's wide-ranging career can be found in his autobiography Over the Airwaves (2005), which includes much detail about Children's Hour. He was later asked by the BBC to write and produce radio programmes in tribute to three Children's Hour regulars, Derek McCulloch (Uncle Mac), Wilfred Pickles and Violet Carson . The programme's closure was decided in 1964 by Frank Gillard following an enormous decline in listenership—by the end of 1963, the number of listeners had fallen to 25,000.

Gillard said that most of them were "middle-aged and elderly ladies who liked to be reminded of the golden days of their youth", and that young listeners had instead turned to watching television, listening to the BBC Light Programme or to pirate radio . There was considerable complaint about the closing of the service and questions were raised in Parliament. David Hendy Programmes Among popular series on Children's Hour were: Said the Cat to the Dog, Music at Random, Top of the Form, and serialisations of stories by children's authors such as Malcolm Saville , Rosemary Sutcliff , Elizabeth Clark and Arthur Ransome . Well-known musicians such as Peter Maxwell Davies composed music for the programme. An unknown teenage Maxwell Davies sent in a composition called "Clouds" which raised a few eyebrows and was duly invited in to see whether "he's a genius or mad". The stalwarts of Nursery Sing Song, Trevor Hill and Violet Carson, decided he was the former so Hill took him under his wing from then on, setting him on his way by introducing him to conductor Charles Groves and others.

From BBC Children’s Favourites To Captain Kangaroo, Edward White’s Puffin Billy Kept The Kids Delighted | By Anorak on 19 March 2014 | comments 0 Share this: ITEM of the day is this 60 piece puzzle in box of Captain Kangaroo (Bob Keeshan). There are no missing pieces. The show was ideally suited to being packaged as a jigsaw: That music was composed by Edward White and played by the Melodi Light Orchestra. Called Puffin Billy it was recorded in 1952. It was written about a train on the Isle of Wight. British reader might remember it from the BBC Light Programme’s Children’s Favourites, a radio request programme that ran from 1952 to 1966. Ever Saturday morning children would sit by the radio and wait for that chirpy, upbeat tune and the voice of Derek McCulloch.

These pictures are from A Day in the life of the chief Radio “Uncle” Derek McCulloch – “Uncle Mac2 of the ever popular Children’s Hour – gives you some extracts from his diary in this exclusive interview with GODFREY WINN – Radio Pictorial April 26, 1935. ( Via ): Known as Uncle Mac, McCulloch had been the BBC’s first radio outside broadcaster to commentate on the F.A Cup in 1927. The opening strains of Puffin’s Billy would fade out. And Uncle Mac would say “Hello Children Everywhere”. Derek McCulloch, Uncle Mac of the BBC. sailed on a cruise to Portugal to recover from his fortieth operation, the amputation of a leg. McCulloch in his invalid chair with his wife,Eileen, at Southampton, England, on Feb. 17, 1939, before embarking in the liner Asturias. Children were invited to write with their requests. The kids (and most likely their parents) loved a funny song. One big favourite was The Laughing Policeman by Charles Jolly, the pseudonym of Charles Penrose.

And there was this, a song that made Terry Scott and My Brother a household name: Those of you who went to school in the 1970s, will remember singing along to this in assembly (I do). And finally, there was this, Charlie Drake’s My Boomerang Won’t Back. The lyrics show their age: “Well, I’m the local witch doctor, son, They call me George Alfred Black. Now tell me, what’s your trouble, boy?” DRAKE: My boomerang won’t come back. “Your boomerang won’t come back?” DRAKE: My boomerang won’t come back, My boomerang won’t come back, I’ve waved the thing all over the place, Practised till I was black in the face, I’m a big disgrace to the Aborigine race, My boomerang won’t come back. But we’re getting away from Puffin’s Billy. It was that cheery tune that made the kids want more. It’s appeared on TV and film many times. Here is is being performed in a quick advert.

McCulloch made his last broadcast in 1965 and several other presenters were then tried to replace him, including Leslie Crowther. Leslie Crowther (second l) listens for the heart beat of Cilla Black’s unborn child, assisted by Terry Scott (l), Basil Brush, who is looking over Cilla’s shoulder, and Sheila Burnette, who is checking Cilla’s pulse. Date: 06/07/1970 After Radio 1 and Radio 2 were launched, the show was renamed Junior Choice (simultaneously broadcast on the two stations). Puffin’ Billy was replaced by an instrumental version of The Seekers’ Morningtown Ride. The show continued until 1968, when Ed ‘Stewpot’ Stewart took over. He was replaced in 1980 Stewart by Tony Blackburn. Times were changing. This cutting is from the Radio Times, 1977 ( Via ). “During the Uncle Mac era, pop was frowned upon but today’s kids have been weaned on it. Nowadays, Wombles are out and Muppets are in – but old favourites like The Laughing Policeman are still requested (often by nostalgic parents).

The secret of a successful request programme is that the audience doesn’t know what’s coming next” – Ed Stewart In 1982, the title Junior Choice became the Tony Blackburn’s Saturday Show and Tony Blackburn’s Sunday Show. And that was it. As for Puffin Billy, well, we’ve heard it many times. It is the essential sound of 1950s Britain. Jimmy Savile OUTED as a PAEDO OCT 3rd - Page 3796 - David Icke's Official Forums Jimmy Savile OUTED as a PAEDO OCT 3rd User Name Posts: 3,511 Likes: 0 (0 Posts) Recording of 'Children's Hour: Nature Parliament'. A monthly feature on BBC radio in which a team of experts answered young listeners questions on natural history. L-R Brian Vesey-Fitzgerald, Hugh Newman, Derek McCulloch (Uncle Mac), chairman, Peter Scott Peter Scott escorting fellow TV zoologist David Attenborough around the grounds of the famous Wildfowl Trust site at Slimbridge in 1962. Here looking out from Scott's studio across Rushy Pen. ...

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Isle Discs Maxwell Knight BBC News - 23 January 2013 RM Lockley, nature conservationist ...By now the wider world was taking an interest in Lockley. He became friendly with other scientists and naturalists, people such as Peter Scott and Julian Huxley. . . Julian Huxley and the Invention of the Public Scientist Through the life and work of Julian Huxley, Jim Al-Khalili explores the idea of the public scientist. Huxley was a member of the BBC's Brains Trust and a founder of UNESCO. He also invented the Children's Zoo at London Zoo. He wrote accessible books on evolution. But how did being a media figure, committed to the public understanding, square with the world of academic science? And where does Huxley's influence lie... ... James Fischer He was the resident ornithologist in the regular "Nature Parliament" series broadcast in the 1950s on BBC radio as part of Children's Hour. Last edited by troyhand; 29-09-2013 at 05:48 PM.

From Derek McCulloch's wiki :- "In 1938 he lost a leg as the result of a road accident, and thereafter remained in constant pain." From Derek McCulloch's wiki :- "In 1938 he lost a leg as the result of a road accident, and thereafter remained in constant pain." SOURCE: He doesn't look too pained in the picture with his fat ass and leg parked on the table. Quote: Originally Posted by troyhand He doesn't look too pained in the picture with his fat ass and leg parked on the table. It gets more bizarre :- "A veteran of the Somme who lost an eye there, McCulloch lost his left leg in a motor accident in the 1930s." (That article also names Derek Mcculloch as "Uncle Dick") Originally Posted by strikeback It gets more bizarre :- "A veteran of the Somme who lost an eye there, McCulloch lost his left leg in a motor accident in the 1930s." SOURCE: (That article also names Derek Mcculloch as "Uncle Dick") Does have a missing eye.

And no pictures of him standing, so I can believe that may be a stump he's laying on the table. Here's Uncle MacDick on the cover of his children's book. Last edited by troyhand; 29-09-2013 at 06:33 PM. Derek McCulloch: National Archives record closed "Derek Ivor Breashur McCulloch OBE | The National Archives discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk › Discover our collections › Results‎ This record is closed and cannot be viewed or reproduced as a digital or printed copy. You can submit a Freedom of Information (FOI) request to The National ..." __________________ "Data! data! data! I can't make bricks without clay!" - Sherlock Holmes in "The Adventure of the Copper Beeches" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. “I began to get really keen, for every man at the bottom of his heart believes that he is a born detective.” Sir Edward Leithen in "The Power House" by John Buchan Quote: Originally Posted by strombone hi strikeback, I have checked an ePub edition of Andrews' DEFENCE OF THE REALM; there is no mention of McCulloch.

See this review of a biography of Maxwell by Anthony Masters for a potential source of the confusion - a mix up between "Uncle Mac" (McCulloch) and "Uncle Max" (Maxwell): Yep - I am searching through the index and while there's good info worth posting on Blunt et al (which will do) am not finding that Anthony Masters claimed Maxwell Knight was Uncle Mac at all Queensland Times (Ipswich) (Qld.) -Tuesday 12 June 1951 ANIMAL INSTINCT "Towards the end of the 1914-18 was a cat belonging to a naval vessel on convoy work between Great Britain and the United States deserted the ship just before she left a large seaport in the North of England. The ship was away for well over six weeks and when she returned she berthed in an entirely different portion of the vast dock area from which she set sail. Yet the first living creature to come on board after the gangways were put down was this self-same cat. Inquiries at the dockside showed that the cat had first made its appearance about a day before the ship's arrival, but it didn't seem to have shown particular interest in any other ship nearby.

Now the extraordinary part about this is that in those days the captain of a ship coming to a home port very often didn't know exactly where he was going to dock until about twenty-four hours before arrival." Maxwell Knight. the naturalist, speaking in the B.B.C. programme. ... Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld.) - Saturday 7 July 1951 CLEVER POLLY I have got a grey parrot and I like to think that she is rather an exceptional one. For example, you've only got to pick up a bottle for her immediately to make the noise of a corkscrew being put into the cork, then the noise of a cork being taken out, followed by the noise of the liquid being taken put into the glass. You haven't got to start pouring out. I mean, she doesn't do the imitation after she had had the stimulus from the noise of pouring. She will go through the proper sequence of noises as soon as she sees you pick up the bottle." - Maxwell Knight, speaking in a BBC programme on intelligence in animals. ... [Is he sending spy orders through these blurbs?] ...

The Australian Women's Weekly - Wednesday 16 September 1964 HOME with Margaret Sydney Those prudent people who do their Christmas book shopping early so that they have plenty of time to read the books themselves before they post them off might be interested in a couple of bird books I've been reading. THE first one is for beginners - the sort of beginners who are interested in what makes birds tick, rather than those with a passion for being able to identify every bird they see. It's called "Birds As Living Things" and its author, Maxwell Knight, makes the point that birds are animals, that we should give up the phrase "birds and animals" in favor of the more accurate "birds and other animals." This is a book written for "young naturalists" - in other words, for children- but it's full of interesting information, and is commendably unsentimental. The author doesn't ask us to believe that birds are anything but bird-brained, but he explores for us some of their astonishing instinctual behaviour. ... The West Australian (Perth, WA) - Saturday 27 October 1934 THE LETTER-BOX. 'Crime Cargo.' by Maxwell Knight.

(London: Philip Allan and Co., Ltd.) 7/6 ... The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld.) - Saturday 9 February 1935 LITERARY NOTES Books and Authors Mr. Maxwell Knight, author of 'Crime Cargo,' has been a sailor, a schoolmaster, and a partner in a private detective agency. He started one of the first post-War jazz bands composed of ex-officers. Until recently he ran a sporting hotel in the Exmoor district. Richard Blackmore, the author of 'Lorna Doone,' is an ancestor of his. [Exmoor district is in Scotland even though this is in an Australian paper.] ... The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld.) - Saturday 29 June 1935 Books Received 'Gunmen's Holiday,' by Maxwell Knight. (Philip Allan.) [Philip Allan is a school material publishing company based in London] ... EDIT @horrified re: your following post. I agree. Animals and crime if these early books are his too. Most Dangerous Gamer? Last edited by troyhand; 29-09-2013 at 07:41 PM.

Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton, Qld.) - Saturday 7 July 1951 CLEVER POLLY I have got a grey parrot and I like to think that she is rather an exceptional one. For example, you've only got to pick up a bottle for her immediately to make the noise of a corkscrew being put into the cork, then the noise of a cork being taken out, followed by the noise of the liquid being taken put into the glass. You haven't got to start pouring out. I mean, she doesn't do the imitation after she had had the stimulus from the noise of pouring. She will go through the proper sequence of noises as soon as she sees you pick up the bottle." - Maxwell Knight, speaking in a BBC programme on intelligence in animals.

Sounds like a Pavlovian interest in animal behaviour Also reminds me of John Aspinall (Clermont Set/ James Goldsmith/Lord Lucan - Krays worked as protection for Chemin de Feu/Chemmy games) and his exotic menagerie And both remind me of Jon Ronson's book Psychopaths where he comments on people who like to keep wild or dangerous animals Posts: 438 Likes: 0 (0 Posts) Sorry for the wild goose chase guys. Although I quoted at least two separate sources who claim that Uncle Mac was Maxwell Knight, it does appear they have their facts wrong. It also appears on balance much more likely that "Uncle Dick" was Derek McCulloch and not Maxwell Knight. I do find it very odd that the information was attributed by at least one writer to DEFENCE OF THE REALM when no mention of it is apparently made in the book. Deliberate disinfo or genuine mistake? Still, it was worth shining a spotlight on Knight for his connections to Alasteir Crowley, the occult, Dolphin Square, MI5, the BBC, and his rather shady sex life. Also worth reminding people that the Derek McCulloch story has been covered up by the BBC.

It's all connected. Express - May 22, 2011 Should Lord Haw-Haw really have been hanged? AT ABOUT 7pm on April 24, 1941, a familiar cut-glass English accent began its nightly broadcast from Nazi Germany. Six million Britons had tuned in to his sneering tones, some entertained, many frightened, others simply intrigued by the latest instalment of “Germany Calling” from Nazi propagandist “Lord Haw-Haw”. In one London home, however, the motives for listening were somewhat different and when the voice announced: “Today is my birthday,” a young girl leapt from her seat and squealed: “It is daddy, of course it is!” Now an 82-year-old widow, Heather Iandolo, the daughter of William Joyce, the man nicknamed Lord Haw-Haw by the Daily Express, is making an appeal to the British authorities to have her father’s guilty verdict for high treason, for which he was executed in 1946, overturned.

Aged just 17 at his death, she has just put her name to an application to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) which asserts that not only was her father not technically British, and therefore unable to be a traitor, but he was also a double agent for MI5 throughout the war, a protégé of the spy master who inspired Ian Fleming to create the Bond character M. The latter is an extraordinary claim which, if true, would mean he duped both Goebbels and Hitler, and would raise new questions about the anti-communist sympathisers in Britain’s secret services. Even at the time of his hanging at Wandsworth Prison on January 3, 1946, Joyce’s conviction was controversial, owing to the serious doubts about his nationality. The execution was also seen as a harsh penalty for someone who, by the end of the war, was mocked by ordinary Britons as a figure of fun. However, Joyce, one of Oswald Mosley’s fascist Black Shirts who had fled to Germany just before the outbreak of war, was no laughing matter to Sir Winston Churchill.

Those who listened to Joyce’s earlier broadcasts described a “sneering, horrible voice… full of vindictive pleasure” and Churchill, like Goebbels, was aware of the power of propaganda on the morale of the nation, particularly during the Blitz and after the retreat of the British to Dunkirk. The British authorities wanted him brought to justice. He was captured by British intelligence officers at the end of the war near Germany’s border with Denmark and brought back to London for trial and execution. Sitting in her terraced home in Gillingham, Kent, Mrs Iandolo, a retired schoolteacher who renounced her own anti-Semitic views after dating a Jewish man in 1949, last week said she still believes her father was the victim of an injustice. “He was so loyal that every time he heard the national anthem, God Save The King, he stood up,” recalls Mrs Iandolo. “I don’t think he hated Britain at all. He was very pro-Empire. Apparently, when he landed at the airport when he was brought back, he said: ‘Britain, God bless her.’ He was glad to be back on British soil again.

“I don’t have any proof that he was working for the British but I don’t think that he could have forgotten his pro-British sympathies. It is possible he was a double agent. He never mentioned it in his letters during the war but then it was the secret service, the silent service.” Born in New York in 1906, William was the son of Michael and Emily Joyce, who had renounced their Irish and British citizenships to become naturalised Americans eight years earlier. In 1909, the family returned to Ireland and settled in Galway, where, despite being Roman Catholics, they became targets for Sinn Fein nationalists because of their open loyalty to the Crown. The most ardent loyalist was teenage William, so much so that nationalists warned his parents they would “slit his tongue” if he continued to be an informer to the British, says Mrs Iandolo. Amid fears of retribution when Irish Home Rule was granted in 1921, the Joyces moved to Britain. Joyce briefly joined the Army, then studied and later taught at Birkbeck College, University of London, and it was while there he became a fascist anti-Semite.

Haw Haw claimed his large facial scar was caused by razorblade-armed communists who inflicted it on him during a Lambeth street battle in the Twenties. He married Hazel Barr and they had two daughters, Diana, who died two years ago, and Heather. The family homes in Chelsea and Norwood, south London, became centres for fascist meetings. Mrs Iandolo remembers visits by Mosley and also by several Germans, including Josef Streicher, who ran a Nazi newspaper and was later executed for war crimes at the Nuremburg Tribunal. She even played with Streicher’s teenage son Lothar. “He was very athletic and sweet,” she remembers. Another regular visitor, according to Mrs Iandolo, was Maxwell Knight. He was a virulent anti-communist, a member of a fascist group and an MI5 spy. “He was very friendly with my mother,” Mrs Iandolo says. “He used to come round to our home on Sunday afternoons after riding in Hyde Park. He had a pet bear that used to go round with him on a chain.

He was rather eccentric as a person but very handsome.” This relationship between Joyce and Knight is key to the new case: just days before war broke out in September 1939, Joyce and his second wife, Margaret White (he had divorced Hazel in 1936), were tipped off that fascists in London were to be arrested and interned as Nazi sympathisers. Unwilling to fight the Nazis, the couple fled to Germany on a British passport that US citizen Joyce had apparently falsely obtained. It IS widely thought that the tip-off came from Knight, a dashing figure who was an inspiration for Fleming’s character, M. After arriving in Germany he was employed as one of several announcers for radio broadcasts to Britain, first from Berlin and later from Hamburg. Mrs Iandolo said she remembers them well. “I listened when I finished my homework,” she says. “At first I couldn’t recognise the voice as being his but then I listened again and again and I said: ‘Yes, that’s him.’ Mother used to listen with me and she would sigh at the rhetoric and say: ‘Oh yes, we’ve heard all of this before.

We don’t want to hear it again.’ ” Joyce, who with Margaret had become a German citizen in 1940, was captured in May 1945. He was brought to London for trial on three counts of treason. He was acquitted of two of them but a majority of Law Lords in the Court of Appeal agreed with prosecutor Sir Hartley Shawcross that because he had relied upon a British passport until 1940, he had had a duty to the Crown. Intriguingly, Margaret, whose British nationality was certain and who had also broadcast a number of bulletins for the Nazis, was never arrested, let alone tried. Many, including Joyce’s biographer Nigel Farndale, believe he had made a deal with MI5 to let her live. It is Joyce’s lifelong connections with the intelligence services, from Galway onwards, which are central to the posthumous appeal bid by his daughter. Questions being raised by the submission to the CCRC include: was he tipped off that he would be arrested and, if so, why? Was he helping MI5 and Maxwell Knight during his time in the British fascist movement? How did British intelligence track him down so easily?

Was he later double-crossed by MI5 and allowed to go to the gallows, in return for saving his wife? Perhaps most improbably of all, the appeal paperwork asks if Joyce passed secret messages to British agents through his broadcasts. The deposition to the CCRC was signed by Mrs Iandolo but written by Giovanni di Stefano, a controversial Italian self-styled “legal expert”. Posts: 2,316 Likes: 0 (0 Posts) Establishment toadie Charles Moore, in this otherwise negative review of Richard Dawkins' new book, is untroubled by Dawkins' recollection of "mild paedophilia" at school: Quote: This is attractive, because he dislikes political correctness. He is breezily at ease with mild paedophilia at prep school, and chortles away with anecdotes about (non-paedophilic) masters called things like Bunjy, Bufty, Boggy and Snappy. He rightly admires eccentricity and rightly associates it with private education. There is something marvellous about a book published in 2013 so old-fashioned hat it ends a chapter with the resounding sentence: ''Oundle beckoned.

Sidney Bechet Although Bechet spent his childhood and adolescence in New Orleans, from 1914 to 1917 he was touring and traveling, going as far north as Chicago, and frequently teaming up with Freddie Keppard, another notable Creole musician. In the spring of 1919, Bechet traveled to New York, where he joined Will Marion Cook's Syncopated Orchestra. Soon after, the orchestra journeyed to Europe where, almost immediately upon arrival, they performed at the Royal Philharmonic Hall in London. The group was warmly received, and Bechet was especially popular, attracting attention near and far.[2] While in London, Bechet discovered the straight soprano saxophone, and quickly developed a style quite unlike his warm, reedy clarinet tone. His saxophone sound could be described as "emotional", "reckless", and "large". He would often use a very broad vibrato, similar to what was common for some New Orleans clarinetists at the time. After being convicted of assaulting a woman, Bechet was imprisoned in London from September 13 to 26, 1922.

He was deported back to the United States, leaving Southampton on November 3 and arriving in New York on November 13, 1922. ... Bechet was jailed[4] for 11 months in Paris when a woman passer-by was wounded during a shoot-out.[5] The most common version of the story, as related in Ken Burns's jazz documentary, reports that the initial shoot-out started when another musician/producer told Bechet that he was playing the wrong chord. Bechet challenged the man to a duel and said "sidney bechet never plays the wrong chord" [4] Other sources assert that Bechet was essentially ambushed by a rival musician.[citation needed] After his release, Bechet was deported to New York. Having arrived right after the stock-market crash of 1929, Bechet joined Noble Sissle’s orchestra. They returned to Europe to tour in Berlin, Germany and Russia. ... Bechet relocated to France in 1950 after performing as a soloist at the Paris Jazz Fair. His performance at the fair resulted in a surge in his popularity in France. After that, Bechet had little problem finding well-paid work in France.

In 1951, Bechet married Elisabeth Ziegler in Antibes, France. In 1953, he signed a recording contract with French Vogue, which lasted for the rest of his life.[6] He recorded many hit tunes, including "Les Oignons", "Promenade aux Champ Elysees," and the international hit "Petite Fleur". He also composed a classical ballet score in the late Romantic style of Tchaikovsky, called La Nuit est sorcière (The Night Is a Witch). Existentialists in France called him "le dieu".[ Last edited by troyhand; 29-09-2013 at 11:45 PM. From the teacher's notes "(A) specially filmed documentary about the unusual world of the disc jockey Jimmy Savile." "The enigma of Jimmy Savile is that for a man who can afford anything and who above all can afford not to have to work 5 days a week, he is most extraordinarily active. He uses the freedom his fame and wealth have brought him to devote his time and energy to those less fortunate.

His diary is full from one month to another with charitable engagements up and down the country. These can vary between delivering church sermons or taking crippled children to the seaside, to judging beauty contests. But whatever it is he does, no payment is received." "'Scene' spent two weeks with Savile and the film illustrates his own particularly personal view of life. There is no attempt to editorialise and the programme presents a report, not an exposé. It is left to the class to assess." - Scene teacher's notes spring 1971 p.4 In the archive Exists. This programme is preserved in the BBC archives. Broadcasts Derek McCulloch (Uncle Mac) in '50s Radio Forum My Recent Posts He also played the part of Larry the Lamb in S.G. Hulme Beaman's ineffable plays in the Toytown series. Because he had difficulty walking, he sat at a table (he was also the narrator) whilst the rest of the cast stood at microphones in the normal way. And what a cast! Felix Felton was the embodiment of pomposity as Mr. Mayor, Ralph de Rophan was the irascible Mr. Growser, Mary O'Farrell was Mrs.

Goose, Peter Claughton (I think!) was Ernest the Policeman and Norman Shelley was the rather uncouth Mayor of neighbouring Arkville. Few episodes survive, however. jelly Re: Derek McCulloch (Uncle Mac) #7 [-] Posts: 18376

Question: How was Derek McCulloch known to listeners of BBC?s Children's Favourites and Children's Hour?
Answer: Uncle Mac